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‘There's 15,000 16,000, almost 15,000 people who are twittering with us.’

‘At the same time, the media dodos who are still in self-denial over devolution continue to twitter, irrespective of the evidence.’

‘Even Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is now twittering to the troops.’

noun

1A series of short, high-pitched calls or sounds.

‘his words were cut off by a faint electronic twitter’

‘The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.’

Phrases

‘All of the household servants were in a twitter over the fact that she was finally home again, fussing over her like a child.’

‘The story kicks off as young Prince Alexander assumes the Greek throne in 1917, soon falling in love with the lovely Aspasia Manos and embarking upon a scandalous secret marriage that puts all of Athens in a twitter.’

‘R.'s in a twitter about how the house ‘looks’ which means I have an appointment with the vacuum cleaner.’

‘He was in a pitiable state of reaction, with every nerve in a twitter.’

‘The web design world is certainly in a twitter these days over the use of what are broadly known as Rich Internet Applications, whether they're created in Flash or in the emerging set of tools known as AJAX.’